Creating change: facilitating with confidence

April 12, 2018 Citizen journalism

If bad meetings are a malady, effective facilitation is the remedy. That is what this workshop with social change communications expert, Les Robinson, was about…

It’s time for a little… passion mashing

April 8, 2018 Participatory techniques

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR some passion mashing attracted around 30 people who clustered in the meeting room at the Randwick Sustainability Hub in February this year for a workshop…

Communicating for change: a most useful workshop

April 4, 2018 Citizen journalism

We write. We speak. We encourage. Sometimes, we cajole. But all too often nobody listens. Even when they do listen they will not act. This is disappointing and…

CoLab survey holds a mirror to permaculture practice

April 2, 2018 Permaculture

What is permaculture worldwide? Who practices it? Where are they? That's what The Next Big Step: Permaculture, practices, passions and priorities for collaborative working set out to find…

Meeting Anne

March 25, 2018 Nomadics

Life on the road. It's a romantic notion. It is also reality for a growing number of people. I got an insight into it when I stopped to…

An end to predictable trail breakfasts

March 18, 2018 Nomadics

At last, we have something to break the predictabiity of breakfast on the trail…